Images of the Present Time (eBook)

Alain Badiou (Autor)

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2023
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-54852-6 (ISBN)

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Finalist, 2024 Translation Prize - Nonfiction, French-American FoundationAlain Badiou began the twenty-first century by considering the relationship between philosophy and notions of "e;the present."e; In this period of his ongoing annual lecture series, the acclaimed philosopher took up the existential problem of how to be contemporary with one's own time-that is, how to not simply inhabit a passing moment but bring a real present into existence.Images of the Present Time presents nearly three years of Badiou's seminars, held from 2001 to 2004, partly against the backdrop of the war in Iraq. Given while Badiou was writing Logics of Worlds, the second of the three volumes of Being and Event, these lectures address some of the same questions of existence in a particular world in a more personal and conversational tone, with reference to literature, philosophy, and contemporary politics and culture. He proposes a new concept of living in a real present as the twisting together of something from the past and something of the future.Featuring some of the philosopher's most inspiring and approachable work, Images of the Present Time is an important book for all readers interested in the practical as well as conceptual possibilities of Badiou's thought.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.1.2023
• Reihe/Serie: The Seminars of Alain Badiou
• Reihe/Serie: The Seminars of Alain Badiou
• Reihe/Serie: The Seminars of Alain Badiou
• Einführung: Kenneth Reinhard
• Übersetzer: Susan Spitzer
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Schlagworte: Alain Badiou • Critical theory • lecture series • Philosophy • political theory • temporality • the contemporary • the present moment
• ISBN-10: 0-231-54852-4 / 0231548524
• ISBN-13: 978-0-231-54852-6 / 9780231548526